On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 11:13 PM, jdd
I would like to know the opinion of the candidates about the recent action of the board presently discussed on this list.
if you had been in the board, would you have supported this action or not and why?
Sorry for the late response. I was out of the reach of internet for a while. Now onto your question, Regarding the current situation: I do not have the full details of all the incidents and complaints. I know about somethings that has happened in my timezone and it is inappropriate to comment about the board's data with my partial knowledge. In a hypothetical scenario of this happening in future, and if I were a board member, Few things that I analyze will be: -> Is the person behaving bad with everyone or just one [set of] people ? -> Is the behavior recurring even after warnings ? -> Can someone mediate and get things neutral ? -> Is it okay for the person to contribute in an area, which does not overlap with the people, with whom he have problems ? And most importantly: -> The severity of the problems. (Racial attacks are more severe than "You suck at your job" style attacks and deserve less leniency) Quoting from my election manifesto (http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Board_election_2010_platform_psankar ) + Eliminate Poisonous people who are unskilled and causes splits. Disinfect the people who are skilled but affected. This may not be an extensive covers-all-scenarios answer. Some of the people issues could be very unique and will require some kind of personal context understanding. Not all problems can be predicted and a policy be documented to react to it :-) Every distro spends millions of dollars and euroes, to increase the contributor count and the community size. It is in nobody's agenda to reduce the size of the community even if it is by one count. Sometimes we need to make decisions even if it is bitter in a short term, for longevity and health. -- Sankar P http://psankar.blogspot.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org